創辦人簡介
黃騰輝（Robert Huang，1959年12月5日－），藝術家、企業家。出生於臺灣花蓮，東海大學畢業，北京清華大學美學碩士、美學博士候選人。
在企業經營上，黃騰輝是台灣第一個社區總體營造「理想國」創辦人之一(1985-1990年代)，將一個原本老舊的爛尾樓社區改造為帶有美學品質的社區。他因為嚮往法國作家聖修伯里(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)小說《小王子》及其筆下那朵代表真愛的玫瑰，於1990年創辦了以玫瑰為主題的英式下午茶店「古典玫瑰園」，並將英式下午茶文化帶入台灣。
在藝術歷程上，黃騰輝是第一位華人作品登上國際VISA卡與MASTER卡封面的藝術家，作品在北京保利拍出300萬台幣高價。他也是一位瓷器設計師，曾為英國皇室御用品牌設計一系列瓷器，包括威廉王子大婚紀念瓷器和英女王登基60周年紀念盃，他的瓷器設計在數十個國家都有收藏者。
在思想上，《亞洲週刊》曾評論說:「黃騰輝透過玫瑰裡的愛情與理想，推展二十一世紀的生活品質文化」。國立台灣美術館館長廖仁義評論說:「黃騰輝是詩人，也是畫家。在他成為畫家以前，他是詩人，而在他成為詩人以前，他是一個躺在田野仰望星空也會感動流淚的小王子」。這些看似衝突性的角色和人生歷練，都成了創作中的靈魂和血液。
黃騰輝以藝術創作向我們傳達他做為藝術家的真誠。執著於藝術追求，使得他的藝術作品呈現出獨屬他個人的美學特色。他的繽紛詩境，是一座沒有圍牆的玫瑰花園，他就像聖修伯里的小王子，獨行在自己的藝術旅途，等候著我們進去分享他的夢想，也探尋屬於我們自己的夢想。
Founder Profile
Robert Huang was born in 1959, Taiwan. He has a bachelor’s degree at Tung Hai University, a master degree at TsingHua University, and also a P.h.d candidate at TsingHua. He built his architectural design skills and painting techniques during college. After college, Robert and three senior architecture graduates started a “Utopia” development case, which is a commercial rebuild of a torn neighborhood. This was the first community rebuild example in Taiwan. His passion in music led into his position as the director of the Classical Orchestra in Taichung, which has educated many young teenage musicians. In order to pursue the unique rose in Saint Exupery's The Little Prince, he founded a rose themed tea house “Rose House,” and the tea house later flourished into a chain corporation.
Robert’s early paintings are all Rose themed, and this theme is well received among the art circle. In 2003, his painting was selected as a visa credit card cover, and this is the first honor amongst all Chinese artists. He also participated in designing the “ Prince William and Kate’ commemorative wedding” porcelain collection for Aynsley. In 2012, Robert started to study aesthetics at TsingHua, and his creations moved from the rose theme into modernist abstraction. His thirty year career as a painter was influenced greatly by Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, William Kooning, Umehara Ryuzaburo, and Chi-Chung Liao. Hence, Robert’s art is both chauvinistic and impressionistic. His works consist of four major subjects: Portraits, Rose themed paintings, Landscape, and abstraction; the first three belong to realism and the last belongs to abstraction. The development of the four subjects indicate Robert’s aesthetic direction of his art: from poetism moving into art creations, and from art creations moving into abstract ideas.
Robert is a unique artist in that he has more than one artistic identity. He is a philosopher, a poet, a director of an orchestra, and yet he is also an artist and an entrepreneur. These seemingly conflicting identities and life experiences all became his inspirations and soul in his artworks. He uses his art to convey his love of being an artist. His persistence in art led to a unique aesthetic style in his paintings. His poetic conceptions are like an open rose garden. He is like the little prince in Saint Exupery’s novel, travelling alone in his artistic journey. Now, He would like to share his dreams with others and encourage others to pursue their own.
